Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous